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Success of the 1704th launch of Soyuz
Evry, December 21, 2005 The 1704th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed Thursday, December 22, 2005 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0:38 a.m. Baikonur time (Wednesday, December 21, 2005 at 7:38 p.m., in Paris). Starsem, Arianespace and their Russian partners report that the Progress spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to the ISS. This was the eleventh Soyuz family mission in 2005. The next Soyuz flight will be accomplished by Starsem for the European Space Agency, launching the Giove-A spacecraft, the first European navigation satellite. Soyuz sustained launch rate confirms its position as one of the world's primary launch vehicles. This rate also demonstrates Samara Space Center's continuous production capacity, as well as the operational capability of launch teams at Baikonur under the authority of the Russian Federal Space Agency. With the introduction of the Soyuz at the Guiana Space Center (CSG), this famed Russian launch vehicle becomes an integral part of the European launcher fleet, together with the heavy-lift Ariane 5 and the lightweight Vega. To be offered exclusively by Arianespace to the commercial market, the Soyuz at CSG is Europe's reference medium-class launch vehicle for governmental and commercial missions. Starsem is the Soyuz Company, bringing together all key players involved in the production, operation and international commercial marketing of the world's most versatile launch vehicle. Shareholders in Starsem are Arianespace, EADS, the Russian Federal Space Agency and the Samara Space Center. The Starsem manifest for Soyuz missions currently includes contracted launches for the European Space Agency, Eumetsat and Globalstar LLC. -- -------------- Jacques :-) www.spacepatches.info |
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